King, Louis Magrath
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1886-1949) China-born UK diplomat, whose work in the British Consular Office took him to the China-Tibet borderlands, and author whose By Tophet Flare: A Tale of Adventure on the Chinese Frontier of Tibet (1937; vt The Warden of the Marches: A Tale of the Chinese Frontier of Tibet 1938), reflecting his travels, describes the discovery of a Lost Race is deep within the Inner Asian Frontier of China. [JC]
Louis Magrath King
born Jiuchang, China: 1886
died Colne, Essex: 16 December 1949
works
- By Tophet Flare: A Tale of Adventure on the Chinese Frontier of Tibet (London: Methuen and Co, 1937) [hb/]
- The Warden of the Marches: A Tale of the Chinese Frontier of Tibet (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938) [vt of the above: hb/]
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